San Diego Chicken meetup and Chat thread

[KensingtonHens]

WOW! I am so impressed with all of you that took part in the lesson. It sounds like it was a humane and possibly humbling experience. You are all amazing, I don't think I could have done it. Well, I know I could if I had too, but I'm a little sick to my tum just letting two go to a good home!!

Who knew one could have such feelings for these little feathered creatures.

You all have been a great source of information, support and enjoyment. Not that I'll be gone for good...I just wanted to say thanks.

dee

 

[luvanimals2]

Cari, Thanks so much for helping me out on Saturday. We were both really working our butts off. I was so exhausted. I needed the whole day yesterday to relax.

I may want to join in on the MM order but I think I mentioned to you that I need to wait a bit to know if I can order or not. I will lyk just as soon as I know.

I am not sure what everyone is ordering but can we all think about buying the tote? That would be so much cheaper and I am sure we can figure out a way to figure it out by volume. Buckets? And then save your bags and then refill. ????? I know I will be interested in layer food mostly. Anyways, just a thought. If not, I will go with the flow as always.

Have a great afternoon everyone. It is HOT here in LA.

Nancy

 

[empireranch]

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What is the tote?

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

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Your so welcome Nancy.

I was exhausted too, I spent most of Sunday just relaxing also.

Yes I want to see what happens with the new food and see if it's still crumbly.

BUT after we figure that out I think we should do an order.

For everyone that doesn't know the "tote" is a giant 2000 pound bag of feed (one kind) that we would scoop into our own bags/ buckets. I contacted them and thought about it but came to some roadblocks, first, how would I move it? Would we have them deliver it here to my house and then we would all come here and get it? I have a scale so we could measure out the right 25 or 50 pound bags, but then if we do bags how do we close them? I'm thinking it would have to be buckets (like cheapo orange home depot buckets), but then everyone would have to invest in those, and then we come to the issue that it's only ONE kind of food, you can't mix and match. So if we did that it would be JUST layer or JUST starter...

Thoughts everyone?

 

[dfdesigns]

Not to be a stick in the mud, but I like MM for much more than just layer or starter feed... my four-legged girls have been sulking since we ran out of the alfalfa pellets a few weeks ago.

(Although I did give them some of the organic scratch as a replacement for the pellets for a few days - they LOVED it!)

I need to inventory the feed room, but I think I'd be in for something like this:

6-ish alfalfa pellets
3 or 4 sunflower seeds
3 or 4 scratch
and maybe another few bags of layer.

What's the average transition age from starter to layer?

Nancy - did you and Cari do ALL those roos Saturday afternoon? No wonder you girls were tired! What about your BCM?

Dana

 

[All-American-Chick]

I like the idea of cheeper food for the girls and If a tote does that then yes Im in.But it would need to be more then a few cents to make the trip up to cari's house id also want bags of goat food.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

Haha yep we did ALL of them except the two lavenders and the BCM.

So I am thinking we should stick to the "normal" way we do things unless we have enough people to actually use all that food PLUS a pallet of mixed stuff, but I don't see that happening at this point in time.

 

[All-American-Chick]

im up for that too.
I was given the go ahead to stock up this time.

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[Knock Kneed Hen]

How many roos did you process and how many helpers did you have? I was really bummed I missed it....will teach me to write it down!!! Hopefully I can come down another day and lend you a hand.

Here's are pics of my newest little additions. Australorp broody with a NN/EE and a pure lavender bantam NN. Sure hope that little NN is a she!!

 

[luvanimals2]

Well, I think the mystery around Blondie not having fertile eggs has been solved. I saw her today fighting w/ the males and then chasing them away. Looks like I will never see offspring from Blondie.

Do they do artificial insemination for chickens?

Nancy